Stupid Team Member Tricks
 

I was at a local competition over the weekend, when this idea popped into my head. What is the stupidest thing a member has ever done on your team? Meaning what was on of the things that a team member did that made you shake your head and groan "How could you do that?"

For instance while I was at the local competition this weekend, one of my team memebers, who sole job was to check the battery, put a dead battery on the robot TWICE!!! The first time he put on our bad battery that didn't even work (why he packed this battery when it didn't work is beyond me.) The second time he put on a working battery but, normally to give the robot enough energy to run the battery needs 12V even 11V is pushing...this battery had 9.9V!! This was during the second match of the quarterfinals so we lost because of our battery. Then it gets worse, he was waiting in the pit with a fully charged battery, waiting to put it on after our match!!!

one of our team members was bored after one of the regionals, so we were sitting in the hotel room talking. someone mentioned daring people and betting that they couldnt do something. one of our team members (shane) got dared to eat 75 peeps. those lil marshmallow ducks that u get at easter and sometimes x-mas. so people started betting that he couldnt do it. well, 70 peeps later we couldnt believe that he could actually do it, so we recorded him eating the last 5 peeps. good times.

Re: Stupid Team Member Tricks
 

Search around -- I remember a few threads on this before in Chit-Chat.

I know of one team member that ate an entire like large subway cup full of mustard...we have pictures somewhere...
And then there are our build season salteen eating contests (its impossible to eat an entire package of em)
And then there was the time some unnamed individual filled a toilet with ice in a hotel room at a regional...

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My team filled a bathtub AND a toilet with ice once... It was when we emptied the ice out of our garbage can. If you're wondering why we had ice in our garbage, just try it once. An empty garbage can and a plastic bag make a very good cooler (for a short time). Just make sure you don't put the ice in the toilet like we did. Toilets don't like ice very much.

A few years ago, one of our team members had just finished machining a gear. He was holding it with about eight paper towels (because it was so hot) but decided to touch a kid on the arm with the burning gear. As he put the gear up to the other kid's arm, he said "Is this hot?" -- yeah, he was banned from the shop for the rest of the year, and the kid he burned still has a scar on his arm (in the shape of a gear, no less!)

Then there's always the aluminum magnet ... Every year, at least one rookie gets sent to look for an aluminum magnet. I think the longest someone looked for one was about 45 minutes. Funny thing is, they never found it ... :D

Yikes. :rolleyes:

- Katie

We've sent kids looking for rubber magnets before. It's always easy to pick up rubber balls with a rubber magnet. They just come right to you. :D

Don't forget about those plastic magnets... :p

Although, im not sure if this was a joke, but some serious credible magazine reported a story that scientists developed a plastic magnet...but I think it was a bad attempt at a joke.

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Here are the links for those threads,

THREAD # 1

THREAD # 2

this story is just downright stupid.

while carrying our robot from storage to pictures for the yearbook, our PREISDENT lost control and hit a truck! we now have to pay for the damages. other than that ummmm... oh
at VCU after the team party, one of our girls decided to get up into the storage bins of our chartered bus. we waited until our advisor came and took roll. when he said her name she poked her head out and said here. we all cracked up. real good times.

One year when we had a scissors lift basket...an engineer had his head inside the scissors lift inspecting the base. One of the older kids snuck up behind him and popped a balloon. :D He didn't do that again!

One time in the shop someone was attempting to drill out some holes in a pickup mechanism. Thinking it was a relatively small part, they placed it in small portable bench vice, relying on it's weight to hold it to the drill press shelf. On goes the drill press, into the part goes the drill bit, accross the room (about 20 feet) the part and the vice fly. That person felt the wind blow by his ear as the thing went flying over his shoulder. Needless to say we all use clamps on our drill presses now, in fear of what would have happened.

we had a few of thoes, i know over at 168 one night they girl driver and the guy driver faced off in hot dog eating contest. 4 packages later and they were tied with no dogs left! One of the stupidest things that someone has done on our team involved dry ice, a few bottles and a pool. Needless to say the next year that hotel wasnt inviting us back.

I still remember that time in my freshman year when we were building a "test" robot in November.. it was my first time in the shop...one of our seniors decided to test the battery but when he couldn't get the testers in the right place he used pliers to grab both wires and stick them in.. sparks went a-flying...

Actually, he wasn't even machining the gear. Someone was showing him how to use the lathe and all he had to do was bring it from the machine shop into the other room. As far as the scar goes, I still have it but it is fading a little

I was trying to have the parties involved remain anonymous ;)

Thanks, Bob :p

- Katie

anyone near us in the pits last year might remember this

this didnt happen at a robotics comp but i still feel that its one of the stupidest things one of teammates has done so far.
ill set it up for ya'll
1 - soccer team just made it to semis in a tourny
2 - Celebrating in pool/hot tub
3 - LARGE, and i mean large, full bottle of body wash(from the hotels locker room) minus a cap

Bottle ends up "spilling" into hottub, bubbles are now everywhere, the best part though is that the hottub and pool were in their own seperate room so the bubbles went up about 4 feet throughout the room
if this wasnt enough the next day a somewhat smaller bottle ended up in the foutain in the lobby

One thing that happend to a kid on my team was we were cleaning out our schools suppy room looking for materials to take home<----School switch. Anyway He had been moving these 3x3 pieces of sheet metal from one sideof the room to the other to get at something that was under it.( threaded rod I think) any way there was about 100 some odd sheets and well... They ALL fell on him. he got knocked to the ground and ended up with a huge cut on his leg after we got him cleaned up we all laughed about it Good times